Facebook's IPO filing tracks growth, features (charts)

Facebook's IPO filing is chock-full of data, including numerous charts depicting user growth by region. CNET has pulled together some of the key data points from the massive document.

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Facebook's big four

In Facebook's just released S-1 filing the company makes the case of its size and growth. That's kicked off with some simple metrics: how many people are using the site, and what exactly they're doing on it.

Here we've got an update on how many active monthly users the site has, how many likes and comments, how many photos are being uploaded, as well as the number of connections made among all those users.

Daily active users between March 2009 and December 2011

Features and growth

In its filing, Facebook provides a look at its growth going back to 2004. Here you can see what features have been added by what year, and how many monthly active users the site attracted. Click through to see the other half of the chart.